Dorad & Sirius

As the most ambitious lunar colonisation project to date, New Moon is primarily a network of craters converted to habitable biospheres. The craters are mainly water-filled, with trees and plants on the surrounding inner slopes. Each environment is covered by a transparent self-sealing nano-polymer roof. Power for the various craters is supplied by vast solar energy farms, covering many square kilometres of the Moon’s surface. Production of solar power has increased over time, enabling New Moon to supplement the energy provided for Earth by the SBSP network.

To make each crater suitable for habitation, the fine lunar soil, or regolith, was fused by a microwave sintering process, creating a ceramic glass-like surface. By varying the heat used to fuse the soil, different areas could have a specific colour or range of colours. Most of the regolith was converted to a particular form of ceramic, reflecting white light in the blue area of the spectrum when covered by water, thereby adding an aesthetic quality to the biospheres.

The New Moon Consortium was formed by numerous companies and organisations, including CHAKRA, to create lunar settlements compatible with cetaceans and humans together, whereas the earlier individual Moon bases had been designed and built with only people in mind. The project was initiated by adapting relatively small craters. The success of those first conversions, along with technology advancements, allowed larger biospheres to be created. The involvement of Chakranaut groups was of particular importance to New Moon’s feasibility. The various teams were able to transport many carbonaceous [C-class] asteroids containing water, which provided the vast quantities required for the crater biospheres.

The larger craters offer greater potential, for taking advantage of the Moon’s gravity being only one sixth of that on Earth. The most adventurous aspect is the possibility for humans and dolphins to literally fly, wearing suits designed specifically for the purpose.

With most of the inhabited craters linked by a cetacean human transit system, constructed in more recent years, New Moon offers humans and dolphins an imaginative and exciting alternative to life on Earth.